LEONHIRTH: Kennedy era helped to define generation

2:47 PM,
Nov. 10, 2013

Written by

Jim Leonhirth

For anyone born in the past 50 or so years, all the attention to this anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination may seem rather extreme, but anyone who lived through that November in 1963 finds it difficult to forget.

For those of us who were coming of age at that time, it was one of the defining moments of our youth.

The assassination, however, has to be put in the broader context of an era of hope. Perhaps, in retrospect, they were false hopes, but they were hopes. ...